In my blog a few weeks ago and in The Minds of Girls I have tried to focus on science-based theory and practice that have proven to close gender gaps. I am arguing that to fully help our daughters, we must push beyond the idea that corporate sexism and “gender stereotypes” are the primary reasons tech and certain STEM fields don’t employ as many women as men. If we do …
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November 4, 2018
On October 10, I spoke at the Dawson School in Boulder, Colorado, and a reporter was kind enough to write a story about the lecture and professional development. This week’s blog post features her article, a cogent grass roots example of brain-based thinking that is being supported in a community. We live in a time when, as we’ve noted before in this blog, a part of our culture wants to …
October 27, 2018
If you haven’t looked recently at our Products page, we hope you will click https://gurianinstitute.com/products/ and look at the products we offer. One of those is our 4 plus hour Online Course featuring Michael Gurian. You can get more specifics about this course at https://gurianinstitute.com/products/boys-and-girls-learn-differently-online-course/. The course can be used by whole school teams on Professional Development days. A school superintendent who used it with his staff called it “a …
November 30, 2018
This has been an amazing year at the Gurian Institute and YOU are the reason why. Each of you has in some way used or heard about our services in your part of the world, and we deeply appreciate you. Please feel free, always, to reach out to us on www.gurianinstitute.com. Let us know how we can serve you better. Next year, we will launch new books and podcasts, …
December 10, 2018
I want to join my colleague, Leonard Sax, M.D., Ph.D., whose blog I am featuring in a moment, in warning parents and schools against extreme positions in the transgender debate, especially regarding young children. The new Pediatrics recommendations can be found here: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/142/4/e20182162. A subcommittee of the American Association of Pediatrics is recommending that if a child says s/he is transgender, no matter their age, they should be treated as …
November 12, 2018
The holidays are coming, and I’m hoping you will give the gift of reading to both young adults and adults in your family. If you are looking for nonfiction, I hope you’ll look at giving Saving Our Sons (2017) and The Minds of Girls (2018) and any of the other Gurian Institute titles that fit your family’s and school’s needs. If you or someone you know is a fiction reader, …
December 6, 2018
If you know someone who loves young adult novels, I hope you will recommend to them that they read the newest young adult novel by Printz Honor Winner, Terry Trueman. This action-packed and enlightening book just received a very positive review from School Library Journal. It’s a really good read. The relationship between the boy—the protagonist in the novel—and both his father and mentor are quite touching. If you are …
November 17, 2018
As you plan for Professional Development in 2019, we at GI hope you will utilize brain-based training during the new year. Please contact gail@gurianinstitute.com to start this conversation. Michael Gurian can come to your community to provide professional development; our certified and master trainers can come; and/or your team can learn Online. We have Pilots and one-year programs that also support systemic transformation in schools and communities. In our schools …
October 12, 2018
I mentioned a few weeks ago how proud I was of the publication of The Blind Woman and Other Stories. Many of you have written to me that you like the stories and I’m very appreciative. I also just learned that the publisher, Latah Books, will be submitting the stories for three different award competitions. Please permit me one more plug of the book! I promise you that it is …
October 8, 2018
A school leader wrote recently: “Michael, we know boys and girls learn differently, and by teaching to the minds of boys and girls, we have closed achievement gaps and improved student safety and behavior. This theory and the strategies work so well, we became a Gurian Model School–this has helped us to nurture the widest diversity of students. “But there is an idea circulating in our community, …
October 1, 2018
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